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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Losing steam',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Don&apos;t feel too bad.
			I struggled with the reading assignment too this week, and it was a long one.
			On top of that, the material didn&apos;t even cover the topic we&apos;re discussing here.
			Honestly, I&apos;m not sure what the &quot;correct&quot; answer is supposed to be, or if there even is one.
		</p>
		<p>
			Base sixty is better for accuracy when dealing with fractional numbers because sixty can be divided by more integers evenly.
			I think that people that disagree with it providing accuracy are worried about there being more symbols to remember; zero through fifty-nine instead of zero through nine.
			We memorise a huge amount of symbols already though in our everyday lives.
			Not all of them are letters or numbers, but people are very good at learning those sorts of things.
			I don&apos;t see why base sixty would be any different.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest log</h2>
	<img src="/y.st./source/y.st./static/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2018/03/20.png" alt="The beginnings of a farm" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="600"/>
	<p>
		Yesterday, I was excited to get <code>yellow</code> completed and released, but I&apos;m not feeling it as much today.
		I&apos;ve gotten <code>yellow</code> to the point that it&apos;s useable.
		That&apos;s good enough for now.
		I&apos;ll polish and release it some other time.
		On second thought, maybe I shouldn&apos;t release the Minequest modpack at all.
		Maybe I should wait until I&apos;ve got all the components built, then make the releases as separate mods.
	</p>
	<p>
		I went on a plant and fungi sample-gathering trip again, but again, I just wasn&apos;t feeling it.
		My usual goal is to get some of each countable plant so I can cultivate them.
		This time, I only sought out a clump of jungle grass and a yellow dandelion so I could start crafting yellow beds.
		I brought way more supplies than I wanted to making sure I could craft new tools if needed and lay claim to any reefs I found.
		I found no reefs and didn&apos;t even use my tools.
		Along the way, I managed to also find one of every sapling aside from birch, all the flowers aside from the water lily, and both mushrooms.
		Oh, yeah, and both regular grass and dry grass.
		I&apos;m still missing several plants, but I don&apos;t need those at the moment.
	</p>
	<p>
		I should have gotten started on growing cotton much earlier; I knew the yellow beds would be coming.
		I had no idea how long it takes for farm plants to grow though, as I&apos;d been playing with much easier settings before.
		At least I have enough cotton for a red bed, two yellow ones.
		(I mostly just left the game running while doing other stuff so the cotton would grow.)
		I&apos;ve had absolutely no source of food until my expedition today, so my only method of &quot;healing&quot; has been to kill off my character in a controlled environment so I&apos;ll respawn with full health, then go collect my dropped stuff.
		That&apos;s been causing me to respawn all over the steep, forested island, usually in the least convenient places, such as partially inside of trees.
		Now I respawn at home, which is good, because growing food is too much effort and doesn&apos;t give me those bone nodes to build with.
		I&apos;m halfway to getting a third yellow bed too.
		The difficulty in getting the first two was about what I want it to be, but once you have your cotton farm set up, it gets exponentially easier to get yellow beds, assuming you grow your farm as you gather seeds.
		I&apos;m worried it might be <strong>*too*</strong> easy to get more warp points set up.
		Maybe it&apos;s best I didn&apos;t get this finished and released right away.
		I should continue testing it out and figure out how I feel about the exponential increase of warp point availability.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drawing">
	<h2>Lucky number drawing</h2>
	<p>
		I nearly forgot to go in today to get the lucky ending digit.
		That would&apos;ve been bad for my little experiment.
		The lucky ending digit for this week is seven.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="IRA">
	<h2>Surprise $a[IRA]</h2>
	<p>
		Apparently, but employer signed me up for an $a[IRA] and five percent of my pay cheques have been being syphoned off into it.
		That explains why they&apos;ve been lower than before.
		However, because my employer neglected to update my address in their records the <strong>*first*</strong> time I told them I moved, they gave the wrong address to the $a[IRA] people.
		So the $a[IRA] people tried to reach me via post, telling me the $a[IRA] was optional, and giving me instructions on how confirm my participation in the program.
		When they didn&apos;t get a response, get this, they <strong>*automatically enrolled me and started taking my money*</strong>.
		I would&apos;ve wanted to participate, but the fact that they did it automatically to me without my consent seems very dishonest.
		Anyway, my mother dropped by my place today while I was away and dropped off mail that got sent to her place instead of mine, so I got the letters and tried to set up my account online.
		The website&apos;s claiming I&apos;m not entering a nine-digit Social Security number though, when I am.
		I have my Social Security card right in front of me too, it&apos;s not like I&apos;m getting the number wrong.
		I&apos;ve written to support to get it cleared up.
		Honestly though, I jumped on getting that set up today because I was worried their site would block me and I needed to know and tell them off about that as soon as possible.
		If they&apos;re taking my money, they&apos;d better be giving me access.
		There didn&apos;t turn out to be an issue on that front though.
	</p>
</section>
END
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